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Posted on 05/07/2011 12:02:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
It was just a firehouse chat with the guys of Engine 54 in lower Manhattan. But President Barack Obama delivered a message he hopes will also hit home with every American in this week of national catharsis: "You're always going to have a president and an administration who's got your back."
In the denouement to the daring raid that brought down Osama bin Laden, the president has in effect been reintroduced to the nation.
While taking care to strike the right tone — trying to savor the success of the dramatic covert operation without appearing to gloat — Obama has offered himself as a decisive leader willing to take bold risks.
He's gotten a bump in the polls that isn't likely to last. But Americans may well come away with altered perceptions of a president whose strongest personal qualities in past polls have run to squishier traits like being a good communicator and friendly.
"It sheds a new light on him," says pollster Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. "What happened here may improve impressions that he is a strong and forceful leader, and that's the enduring potential benefit."
Obama's understated victory lap — not that he would ever call it that — continued on Friday in Kentucky...
But it is inescapable that he is not only a president. He also is a candidate for re-election. And the successful raid can only do him good politically...
-- EDITOR'S NOTE — Nancy Benac has covered government and politics in Washington for more than 25 years.
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The author also said that Obama had a risk to his presidency if this had botched (in explaining why the previous presidents who led to Bin Laden’s capture don’t get to share the glory for their policies).
Jimmy Carter (their example of a FAIL in Iran) made his own mess. And he continues to cause problems with the Middle East.
It was very gutsy - gutsy for the amazing Navy SEALs who brought it off. Meanwhile, President Hussein sits in the White House and waffles over the destruction of the American economy, or goes out to play golf.
White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
I thought the same thing. President for life.
“may improve impressions that he is a strong and forceful leader...”
Got that right. He does great impressions.
Yes, and when the wind shifts and people start the “war crimes” and/or “execution” meme, you can bet he will lay every bit of that on the troops. He’s a scumbag and an opportunist. I’d hate the idea of serving under a guy like that.
Why, yes. Try it yourself.
Hopefully we are smart enough to remove him politically without a Reichstag Fire.
Where’s the barf alert?
That’s great. Now, re-read my post, including my quote of the original post and my reply to it, and summon up all “reading comprehension” you can muster. If you don’t get it after that, feel free to keep it to yourself.
I think “AP alert” would suffice.
Good news that Osama is dead; bad news that it was Obama who gets the credit. When it was all Bush’s policies and infrastructure that set up the kill.
And what makes it doubly depressing is that we HAD that SOB back in December of 2001 but Bush stepped back to let our “allies” take over... and totally botch the job.
How typical of a Republican President to “be nice” or “get along” or “reach out to the other side” or whatever the correct terminology of the day is/was!
Notice that Obama (as much as we hate him) didn’t make that STUPID STUPID STUPID mistake. He sent OUR boys in to do the job RIGHT with no thought or consultation with our “allies” (I know, in opposition to everything he claimed in his campaign, but so what, he didn’t talk tough but he acted tough... meanwhile “cowboy Bush” ends up with the same results as a wussy Nancy Pelosi!).
How sad.
How depressing.
What a different world we would be in right now if Bush had had b*lls back in 2001 and sent in our own boys to kill Bin Ladin dead as a doornail early on in the war.
How sad.
How depressing.
The Kenyan King gets the credit.
The Kenyan King has more b*lls than the Texas Cowboy.
How sad.
How depressing.
What the hell are you smokin’?
From Wikipedia: Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American who on April 21, 1980 crossed the finish line before all other women runners in the 84th Boston Marathon and was initially credited as the first place female competitor, but was later stripped of her title when it was found that she had not run the entire course.
More at the link above.
It’s amazing, isn’t it, how the press forgets it is supposed to be a check ON the government, not its cheerleader?
The MSM is a disgrace. Hitler would have loved these guys. They would have been typing away in Goebbel’s dept, He’s got our backs! He’s bold! He’s decisive! He’s GUTSY!!!! What a god!
In a few weeks, the people will once again realize that there are still millions out of work, gas is too damn expensive, prices are rising like rockets, and Ubama is still a lying POS.
www.gutsycall.com
Paste the above URL into your address bar and see where it leads.
This slut writes like a Goebbel’s propaganda whore who was given the privilege of sniffing Hitler’s dirty underwear.
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